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iPhone 5 battery life [Merged]
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To those getting less than stellar battery life,
Keep in mind that anything using location services drains the battery more quickly. Also games. And if you get 20 emails an hour pushed to your inbox, well, you get the idea.
Keep in mind that anything using location services drains the battery more quickly. Also games. And if you get 20 emails an hour pushed to your inbox, well, you get the idea.
42%
Usage: 4 hours, 38 mins
Standby: 15 hours, 49 mins
Email getting pushed to me too
I'm extremely happy with my battery. Much better than my 4. It's also getting better by the day.
Usage: 4 hours, 38 mins
Standby: 15 hours, 49 mins
Email getting pushed to me too
I'm extremely happy with my battery. Much better than my 4. It's also getting better by the day.
OK, now I know some people say it makes no difference due to the battery type so I can only speak from peronal experience, BUT, I was concerened about my battery life on my iPhone 5 as it was draining way too fast for my liking. I was quite prepared to do a full 'as new' restart but first thought I'd try the drain-fill-it-up-again method to calibrate...something.
I don't know what this process calibrated (if anything), be it battery or software, but for me at least it has rectified the problem.
Rather than drop by 1 percent each time I unlock it and load Safari it has stayed a constant 100% since I unplugged it 2 hours ago, which may not seem impressive to some but has definitely made a difference to the performance I have been getting.
I'm not advocating this as a fix for everyone's battery problems (I have also turned off pretty much all the location services apart from the ones I know I use and a lot of the settings that are switched on that I know make no real difference) but it is worth a shot.
I'm aware that there are nay-sayers whom claim that this has no benefit in regards to the battery type in the phone and whilst I don't know enough about the battery type to present an argument to say that it does I can say that it has caused something in there to make me far happier!
Hope this helps someone.
I don't know what this process calibrated (if anything), be it battery or software, but for me at least it has rectified the problem.
Rather than drop by 1 percent each time I unlock it and load Safari it has stayed a constant 100% since I unplugged it 2 hours ago, which may not seem impressive to some but has definitely made a difference to the performance I have been getting.
I'm not advocating this as a fix for everyone's battery problems (I have also turned off pretty much all the location services apart from the ones I know I use and a lot of the settings that are switched on that I know make no real difference) but it is worth a shot.
I'm aware that there are nay-sayers whom claim that this has no benefit in regards to the battery type in the phone and whilst I don't know enough about the battery type to present an argument to say that it does I can say that it has caused something in there to make me far happier!
Hope this helps someone.
if you're getting crap battery life and haven't done the following, best to do it:
start from scratch. do NOT restore from a backup. most battery drain issues are due to users restoring from their backup.
limit the amount of apps you have on your device. i only have a handful of apps and ensure the apps are not constantly using data
set phone to manual brightness and at around ~15% brightness
make sure to use WiFi whenever possible.
start from scratch. do NOT restore from a backup. most battery drain issues are due to users restoring from their backup.
limit the amount of apps you have on your device. i only have a handful of apps and ensure the apps are not constantly using data
set phone to manual brightness and at around ~15% brightness
make sure to use WiFi whenever possible.
After yesterdays woes (losing 40% on train journey to work) I did the following
a) Reset all settings (not content)
b) Turned off location services for all apps that I can do without
Today, I have lost only 15% in 3 hrs, so it looks like I am back to iphone 4 performance
Mine is currently at 46%
Usage: 5 Hours 43 Minutes
Standby: 23 Hours 24 Minutes
I'm very happy with that
Usage: 5 Hours 43 Minutes
Standby: 23 Hours 24 Minutes
I'm very happy with that
Lab Tests: How long does the iPhone 5's battery last?
http://www.macworld.com/article/2010535/lab-tests-how-long-does-the-iphone-5s-battery-last.html
Given some of the iPhone 5s other improvementsthinner body, larger screen, and greater number of pixels to illuminateit wouldn't seem that the new phone could also match, much less exceed, its predecessor's battery life. And, in fact, it doesn't, though it comes close.
Apple has claimed that the iPhone 5 would deliver up to 10 hours of video playback on a single chargethe same as the 4S. To see how good the new iPhone's battery life really is, I ran it through our standard battery test and then compared the result to those of the iPhone 4S, and iPhone 4; for good measure, I also compared it to the third-generation iPad and iPad 2.
More specifically, I first updated those older devices to iOS 6. I then took a luminance meter and set the screens of all of the devices to 200 nits. I turned off Auto-Brightness and put each device into Airplane mode. Lastly, I set the volume two clicks up from its lowest setting. Then, with the same 120-minute video playing at fullscreen on repeat, I timed each device to see how long it would take to drain the battery and power off.
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Results are in hours:minutes. Longer bars are better. The results: Simply put, the iPhone 5 did not last as long as the iPhone 4s or 4. It lasted 8 hours and 21 minutesabout 6 percent less than the iPhone 4S and about 4 percent less than the iPhone 4. Compared to the two current iPads (which have much bigger batteries), the iPhone 5 lasted 27.5 percent less time than the iPad 2 and 17 percent less than the third generation iPad.
http://www.macworld.com/article/2010535/lab-tests-how-long-does-the-iphone-5s-battery-last.html
Given some of the iPhone 5s other improvementsthinner body, larger screen, and greater number of pixels to illuminateit wouldn't seem that the new phone could also match, much less exceed, its predecessor's battery life. And, in fact, it doesn't, though it comes close.
Apple has claimed that the iPhone 5 would deliver up to 10 hours of video playback on a single chargethe same as the 4S. To see how good the new iPhone's battery life really is, I ran it through our standard battery test and then compared the result to those of the iPhone 4S, and iPhone 4; for good measure, I also compared it to the third-generation iPad and iPad 2.
More specifically, I first updated those older devices to iOS 6. I then took a luminance meter and set the screens of all of the devices to 200 nits. I turned off Auto-Brightness and put each device into Airplane mode. Lastly, I set the volume two clicks up from its lowest setting. Then, with the same 120-minute video playing at fullscreen on repeat, I timed each device to see how long it would take to drain the battery and power off.
Results are in hours:minutes. Longer bars are better. The results: Simply put, the iPhone 5 did not last as long as the iPhone 4s or 4. It lasted 8 hours and 21 minutesabout 6 percent less than the iPhone 4S and about 4 percent less than the iPhone 4. Compared to the two current iPads (which have much bigger batteries), the iPhone 5 lasted 27.5 percent less time than the iPad 2 and 17 percent less than the third generation iPad.
Macworld did their lab tests. Appeara 5 is not better. But this a very specific test and not real life usage.
http://www.macworld.com/article/2010535/lab-tests-how-long-does-the-iphone-5s-battery-last.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/2010535/lab-tests-how-long-does-the-iphone-5s-battery-last.html
There's often a difference between what a company says and what actually happens in the real world. Apple says my iPad would last 9 hours of use, in reality it lasts no more than 5.
Mine has been mixed, seems to be good, then seems to die quickly.
I did find one issue, iheartradio is crushing the CPU and battery, started with approx 50% battery, streaming iheartradio the phone was dead in about 2 hours and very warm to the touch.
I use Sysstats lite to monitor the phone, with no apps running I am at about 2% CPU usage. With iheartradio the usage jumped to >50%. For comparison, Pandora is running at 10% usage.
here are screen caps from the last two days. Have LTE turned off as it is not yet available here. Some location services on, push email on, some icloud services on.
I did find one issue, iheartradio is crushing the CPU and battery, started with approx 50% battery, streaming iheartradio the phone was dead in about 2 hours and very warm to the touch.
I use Sysstats lite to monitor the phone, with no apps running I am at about 2% CPU usage. With iheartradio the usage jumped to >50%. For comparison, Pandora is running at 10% usage.
here are screen caps from the last two days. Have LTE turned off as it is not yet available here. Some location services on, push email on, some icloud services on.
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i think I got a good battery....
at 38%
Usage: Amount of time iPhone has been awake and in use since the last full charge. The phone is awake when youre on a call, using email, listening to music, browsing the web, or sending and receiving text messages, or during certain background tasks such as auto-checking email.
Standby: Amount of time iPhone has been powered on since its last full charge, including the time the phone has been asleep.
at 38%
Usage: Amount of time iPhone has been awake and in use since the last full charge. The phone is awake when youre on a call, using email, listening to music, browsing the web, or sending and receiving text messages, or during certain background tasks such as auto-checking email.
Standby: Amount of time iPhone has been powered on since its last full charge, including the time the phone has been asleep.
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this is more like what I have, around 4 hours if you stream media (audio /video)
I'm going to monitor this thread because I just switched from an HTC Thunderbolt to an S3 and the battery life is really bad..better with rooting and tweaking, but still bad.. I'm considering returning my S3 and getting the IP5, or I might switch back to the TBolt.. kinda have buyers remorse (phone is great, but doesn't seem worth the full $ I paid for it since I am keeping unlimited data on VZ).
Edit: I've been off charger for 5 hours and at 79%. I played some music for about 20 min and did 20-25 min of browsing (mostly twitter/fb reading).
Edit: I've been off charger for 5 hours and at 79%. I played some music for about 20 min and did 20-25 min of browsing (mostly twitter/fb reading).
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not good for me
As you can see standby for nearly 4 hours.
I did not use my phone for 18 minutes. Actually I didn't use it at all other than to take this picture (it was in my bag while I worked out). I received about ten emails according to my alerts, but I didn't check any (all received before i even unplugged it).
Woke up, I unplugged it, put it in my bag, got to work, couldn't believe my eyes.
My iphone 4 would have been at 99-100%.
Other:
LTE - off
wifi - off
bt - off
4g - on
email - push (gmail)
I don't understand.
As you can see standby for nearly 4 hours.
I did not use my phone for 18 minutes. Actually I didn't use it at all other than to take this picture (it was in my bag while I worked out). I received about ten emails according to my alerts, but I didn't check any (all received before i even unplugged it).
Woke up, I unplugged it, put it in my bag, got to work, couldn't believe my eyes.
My iphone 4 would have been at 99-100%.
Other:
LTE - off
wifi - off
bt - off
4g - on
email - push (gmail)
I don't understand.
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Since I'm at exactly the same percentage you just posted I took a look at my usage to compare. I'm at 95% with 3 hours, 41 minutes standby and 59 minutes usage. However I actually have been using my phone during that time and really have done quite a lot (searching for and downloading apps, web browsing, texts, some Siri). I've been seeing quite a few posts stating that the person hadn't even used their phone at all since unplugging it from the charger, yet there will be usage recorded.
I have LTE turned off. And yesterday battery life seemed good. I unplug the phone this morning, read the news and listen to a news podcast and I'm at 87% already?!?
That is bad. Like NFL replacement ref bad.
I lost 5% not using it! I'm not sure which is worse.
Bwhaha... I love all the people who post screen shots of like 8 or more hours of usage time, with battery life left, saying "LOOK AT THIS!!! SO GOOD!!!" but then below their usage stats it mentions the phone has been plugged in between charges. lol
Seriously people, think will you.
Seriously people, think will you.